Picture-hanger



(No Model.)

L. A. PIAGET. PICTURE HANGER.

' No. 535,597. Patented Mar. 12, 1895.

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i WMKEM LOUIS A. PIAGET, OF PATERSON, NEW JERSEY.

PICTURE-HANGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 535,597, dated March 12, 1895.

Application filed February 13, 1894:. Serial No. 500,087- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I,LoU1s A. PIAGET, a citizen of the United States, residing at Paterson, in the county of Passaic andState of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Picture-Hangers, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a device for hanging pictures, where a cord or Wire is employed, which, from its simplicity of construction and the method in which it is used, will greatly facilitate the hanging of pictures or ornaments and do away with the disagreeableresults experienced in maniput5 lating wire or cord in the ordinary method of hanging pictures.

The invention consists of a strip or blade of metal bent in the form of a hook at each end, one of said hooks being adapted to engage a screw-eye secured to the back of a picture frame, and the other hook being provided with a wedge-shaped notch at its end, a single perforation being made in said strip approximately opposite the apex of the wedge-shaped notch, said notch and perforation being adapted to receive the cord employed in hanging the picture.

In the accompanying drawings in which similar letters of reference indicate like parts, Figure ,l is a side elevation of my device, and Fig. 2 represents the metal blade before it is bent as shown in Fig 1. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the upper portion of the form shown in Fig. 1.

In the drawings: A, is the metal strip or blade.

B, represents the hook which engages with the screw-eye attached to the picture frame.

0, represents the opening through which the 40 picture cord passes.

D, represents the wedge-shaped notch in said blade; and E, the wire cord passing through the perforation and the notch in said blade. i

The hook end, B, of the blade, A, may be of such a formation as to act like a spring hook, so that when the screw-eye is pressed into the hook, B, it will be held therein securely.

The operation of my device is obvious from an inspection of the drawings. The cord, E, passing through the wedge-shaped notch, D, enters the perforation, O, at such an angle as to securely hold it in such a position as to render it impossible for it to slip through the notch when the weight of the picture is upon it. By this means the cord is securely held in the notch against accidental displacement 5 for it is obvious that, if the opening, 0, were absent, and the cord hung loose and dependent upon the friction of the notch alone for its retention in position, an accidental pull on the loose end of the cord, E, or even the weight of the cord itself might detach the same from the notch, when the picture would fall.

I am aware that picture-hangers have been constructed of a metal plate bent into the form of a tube provided with a wedge-shaped notch for holding the cord; but in such devices there is no provision made for retaining the loose end of the cord in such aposition as to avoid a possible loosening of the same from the wedge shaped notch by an accidental pull.

1 am also aware that picture-hangers have been constructed of a plate of metal having two round perforations through which the cord is to pass; but in such devices friction alone is depended upon, and, to the end that the friction may be efiective, the perforations and the cord must be of a corresponding size.

My device is designed to overcome all these objections by providing awedge-shaped notch adapted to any size of cord, and a means of holding the loose end of said cord in such a position as to prevent the possibility of slipping by accident, and at the same time being adapted to instant readjustment.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. An article of manufacture consisting of a picture hanger formed of a flat strip of metal bent in the form of the letter S, the upper end of said strip being provided with a wedgeshaped notch and having a single perforation approximately opposite the apex of said notch, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. An article of manufacture consisting of mo a picture hanger constructed of a strip of opposite the apex of the notch, substantially 16531, 18, lpent a}? ealfligegd in 133116 feign of a as and for the purpose set forth.

oo t e ower o0 eing a apte to engage the screw-eye of a picture-frame, and the LOUIS PIAGET' upper hook being provided with a wedge- Witnesses: shaped notch, D, at its end, said strip of metal WM. M. DREW, having a single perforation, 0, approximately EMMET OBRIEN. 

